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American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Robert Ettinger was a science teacher and writer who launched the field of cryonics and became its most most fervent ambassador, even choosing to be cryogenically frozen himself. On this episode, Steven talks to filmmakers Josh Koury and Myles Kane. Their documentary short film, We Shall Live Again, is a unique window into the mind of Ettinger and the process of cryopreservation.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to American Innovations,
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0:14.4	Download the Wondery app in your Apple or Google Play mobile app store today.
0:19.8	Wondery!
0:23.8	From Wondery, I'm Stephen Johnson and this is American Innovations.
0:32.8	The field of cryonics is unique in that it's based less on existing technology and more on the belief in the power of future technology.
0:58.8	That one day, scientists will have the ability to reanimate frozen bodies and cure them of whatever caused their death.
1:06.8	The primary architect of that hope is former science teacher and science fiction writer Robert Etnker,
1:12.8	who in 1962 launched the field of cryonics with his book The Prospect of Immortality.
1:19.8	Etnker was an ambassador for cryonics for the rest of his life and when he died in 2011, at the age of 92, he was cryopreserved at the
1:28.8	Cryonics Institute in Michigan, the cryopreservation facility he founded.
1:34.8	Today's guests, filmmakers Josh Corey and Miles Kane were some of the last people to interview Etnker before he died.
1:42.8	Our documentary short film, We Shall Live Again, is a unique window into the mind of Etnker and the process of cryopreservation.
1:51.8	Miles and Josh, thank you so much for joining us on American Innovations.
1:56.8	Thanks Stephen, good to be here.
1:58.8	Hi, thank you for having us.
2:00.8	So let's just start with the topic itself, cryonics.
2:04.8	What drew you into this particular field and into these stories? Obviously we got pulled into this orbit as well in American
2:12.8	Innovations because it's fascinating, but I'd love to hear it in your own words.
2:15.8	What was it drew you into this and specifically what drew you to the cryonics institute itself?
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